David Abrams

David Abrams is the Senior Managing Director for Cerberus European Capital Advisors, LLP. Previously, he was the Founder & Partner, Non-Performing Loans, for Apollo Management International LLP, which he joined in 2007. From 1996 through 2007, Mr. Abrams was a Managing Director in the Leveraged Finance Group of Credit Suisse, based in London and New York. From 2004 through 2007, he founded and was the Head of the Specialty Finance Investment business which included principal investing in non-performing loan portfolios and distressed assets. From 1996 through 2004, he was a founding member and Co-Head of the Global Distressed Sales and Trading Group at Credit Suisse (and its predecessor Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc.). Mr. Abrams began his career in 1989 as an analyst in the Investment Banking Division of Bear, Stearns & Co. and then was an associate/vice president at the Argosy Group, a boutique corporate restructuring firm. He graduated cum laude with a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.